Excerpt from: news.nationalgeographic.com/news
June 13, 2006—Perhaps not since the Cowardly Lion has an animal’s appearance been so at odds with its attitude.
On June 4 a black bear wandered into a West Milford, New Jersey, back yard, was confronted by a 15-pound (7-kilogram) tabby cat … and fled up a neighbor’s tree. Hissing at the base of the tree, Jack the clawless cat kept the bear at bay for about 15 minutes, then ran him up another tree after an attempted escape.
Finally, Jack’s owner, Donna Dickey, called the cat inside, and the timorous trespasser disappeared back into the woods.
“He doesn’t want anybody in his yard,” Dickey said of Jack in an interview with the Newark Star Ledger.
Unlike cats, bears aren’t typically territorial, roaming instead over vast areas that would be impossible to patrol for intruders. With a habitat that includes much of North America, black bears are seen fairly often in this region of New Jersey.
Did You Know?
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Full-grown black
bears weigh
between 200 and
600 pounds and
measure as much
as 6 feet long.
2 responses to Cat Chases Bear Up Tree
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My elderly cat, who lived with me for 18 years through good times and bad, stood his ground against a full-grown Florida panther who was looking for a free meal of the baby chickens.
Attitude Cat positioned himself unmoving between the big cat (well, medium-sized; Florida panthers are only about the size of a Lab Retriever) and the chicken pen while the chicks darted for the door. By the time I got the BB gun cocked and aimed, the cougar was gone back over the fence.
All companions are special, but some are more special than others.
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